Harry’s regret about heartbreaking last call with Diana

Princes William and Harry have described their last phone call with their mum in their most candid and heartbreaking interview yet.

The boys were aged just 15 and 12 when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997, and in an upcoming Sunday Night documentary, they reveal that they spoke to her just hours before her untimely death.

Diana had phoned them that night, but the princes were playing with their cousins at the time so they didn’t speak for long.

It’s a decision that’s played on Harry’s mind ever since, with the royal saying, “I have to deal with that for the rest of my life.”

"I do remember regretting... for the rest of my life how short the phone call was," he says, "And if I'd known that was the last time I'd speak to my mother, the things I would have said to her..."

"Looking back on it now it is incredibly hard. Not knowing that was the last time I was going to speak to my mum, and how differently that conversation would have panned out if I'd had even the slightest inkling that her life was going to be taken that night."

His brother William also remembers the phone call vividly. They were due to meet their mum after speanding nearly a month apart, so didn't linger long on the phone.

"I think Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say 'goodbye', 'see you later', and 'we're going to go off'... If I'd known what would happen I wouldn't have been so blasé about it. But that phone call sticks in my mind quite heavily," Prince William says.

The trauma is still so recent that Harry says, “This is the first time the two of us have ever spoken about her as a mother. [It was] arguably probably a little bit too raw until this point. It's still raw.”

He adds that he never enjoyed speaking to his parents on the phone, and much preferred spending face-to-face time with them.

The princes are seen flicking through never before seen photos of them and their mum in the trailers for a new documentary Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, which airs on Seven's Sunday Night next week.

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At one point, Harry reveals that he can “still feel the hugs she used to give us,” and says, “all I can hear is her laugh in my head, that sort of crazy laugh where there was just pure happiness shown on her face”.

Diana,Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy airs Sunday, 30 July, at 7pm only on Channel 7.

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